Elementary School Grade 2 Curriculum
Personal and Social Education
T.H.I.S students develop an awareness of their self-identity, strengths and weaknesses. They learn to recognize, communicate and mange their own feelings: reflect on their abilities and behavior: and set achievable personal goals. Grade 2 students examine the workplace and the skills people need to complete their roles successfully.
Language
Mathematics
Students expand their knowledge in numbers and arrays, develop fluency, and further strategies for arithmetic operations within 100, practice addition and subtraction to 100, understand Place Value to 1,000, count and compare numbers to 1,000, add and subtract numbers within 1,000, measure and estimate lengths, solve length problems, represent and interpret data, identify, compare, and solve problems with money and time, as well as identify and partition shapes.
Our comprehensive standards-based math curriculum is aligned with the Common core Math Standards
Social Studies
Students differentiate between things that happened long ago and things that happened yesterday. Trace family history, create timeline of events, learn map skills, use a grid. Compare urban, suburban, and rural environments. Learn about making laws. Learn about governments of different nations, basic economic concepts: supply and demand, goods and services, production and consumption. Learn of famous people and heroes from long ago: Edison, Bell, Curie, Cousteau, Keller etc.
Science
Second grade explores ecosystems, biological diversity, Earth’s systems, matter, and engineering design. Students learn what plants need to grow and how they rely on animals for pollination and seed dispersal, while comparing life in different habitats. They study and classify materials by their observable properties and examine how wind and water shape the land. Students also use models and information to identify landforms, bodies of water, and where water is found on Earth. They apply their understanding to design solutions that help reduce land changes.
Our comprehensive standards-based Science curriculum is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Art
Grade 2 learn about repetition and balance in nature and works of art, warm and cool colors, elements of art in nature, line, texture, color, space, shape. Students will do college, stencils, watercolors, oil pastel, radial symmetry, illusion of depth understand how art is used in events in various cultures, past and present, derive meaning from works of art and use the vocabulary of art to talk about their work.
Music
Grade 2 students learn to enjoy music through singing, dancing and playing both games and instruments. They begin to read, create and experience music and are exposed to simple rhythms and melodies. Students also perform for others. Grade 2 students start with string lessons (cello or violin).
Physical Education
Students learn about rules, fairness, movement in relation to another person, patterns, dance, balance, manipulative skills, catch, throw ,kick, hit, nutrition, exercise, and games: soccer, basketball badminton, volleyball, swimming, tennis, athletics.
Additional Languages ( i.e.French/Spanish/German/Hebrew )
Every student whose academic standards allow an additional language, have the choice of French, Spanish, German or Hebrew. (Minimum amount of children needed.)
The lower school additional language program aims to develop and improve comprehension, expression and grammar. Vocabulary, grammar and research are integrated into the program according to the student’s level. Students learn about customs through cultural activities.
Technology
